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To: one_less who wrote (572856)	5/7/2004 2:07:07 PM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 769670

This is exactly what I'm talking about... Vatican says Iraqi prisoner abuse is scandal which 'offends God' VATICAN CITY (AFP) - The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers is a scandal offensive to God himself, the Vatican (news - web sites) said, in its first public comment. "Violence against people offends God himself, who made humans in his own image," the Vatican's foreign minister, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, said in a pre-recorded television interview due to be broadcast later on Friday. He condemned the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, made public last week, as "episodes of brutality, contrary to the most elementary human rights and radically contrary to Christian morals". "The scandal is even worse if these episodes were committed by Christians," Lajolo said in the interview, due to be shown on Italian state television's TG2 news programme. "You have to emphasize, all the same, that in a democracy such offences are not hidden away -- as is the case in the United States, where those responsible are judged and punished along with their superiors who did not fulfil their duty to monitor them," he said. Lajolo said he hoped Iraq (news - web sites) would regain its independence and sovereignty as soon as possible, that the country would be led by "a competent Iraqi leader, recognized as such by the people", and that the United Nations (news - web sites) would be given "a defining role" in the oil-rich country. He said he was optimistic that the return to Iraq on Thursday of UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi meant the UN could soon assume that role. On Thursday Lajolo's predecessor as Vatican foreign minister, French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, condemned the abuse and alleged torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers. "These images have a terrible effect on Arab populations and throughout the world," Tauran said in an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa. "When one ridicules human dignity like that, one puts up barriers," added Tauran, who until recently was the top foreign policy official at the Holy See. "When one conducts war, one must respect the law." He said that normally the US military did not behave in such a way and the photographs of the abuse were "deplorable". He added that the US-led war in Iraq had clearly not succeeded in eradicating terrorism. "The pope had reasons for denouncing the idea of a preventive war and it is clear that this war has not done away with terrorism," he said. news.yahoo.com Where was the Vatican's outrage when 4 Americans charred bodies were dragged through the streets of Iraq? What about the Vatican's outrage with respect to Saddam's treatment of his own people. I find this disgusting. What I find even more ironic is that the Vatican is supporting the extremely corrupt UN. I guess the Vatican must have been the recipient of Saddam's "oil for food" money too. Diz-